Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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Our Boys at trie Front © E, the class of 1!»1! , thought it both fitting and an honor, since our country is at war and many of our boys are at the front, to dedicate this edition of the Lanthorn to them in recognition of their loyalty to their country- These young men left their homes and friends and came to Susquehanna to gain an education in order that they might render service to their fellow- men and to civilization. It was in the beginning of what we thought a perfect day for civilization when the clouds of war began t roll and the steel of nations began to clash. As the darkness of slaughter came rolling on, the call came to the American people, Come forth to the call of civilization and fight for democracy. Such was the call that came to our boys. Some had just be- gun their course, others had completed it while others were on the threshold of graduation. In loyalty to their country they answered the call, leaving their unfinished work behind. They have enlisted in the many different branches of United States ser- vice. As we see this splendid band of young men marching forward, we can place our confidence and trust in them, that they will fight to the last to assist in the overthrow of Prussianism and autocracy. We wish them God ' s speed and when the clouds of slaughter and death shall roll away and democ- racy is triumphant; when the curtains of a new dawn are lifted, and we lie- hold peace, we hope to see their faces again, and have them renew the fellow- ship, which they once enjoyed. But if they are not permitted to return, may they ever be remembered as the champions of Democarcy and the defenders of their Native Country. Page Six

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® Our Boys at the Front We, tke Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen Dedicate This Lanthorn In recognition of their loyalty to their country. ■ as r ■ ■■: .-tv xJ i:oa.i J 7. Ptf f FfV4

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Good Bye, Soldier Boys! CHE lads that go now, high hearted as were they, go to hleed and do and die in a war that is fought under water, on the surface, and in the air above. They go to face the clouds of poisonous gas and the barrage of fire. They go in the face of all these, to give blow for blow, to pit American wits, initiative, and courage against these qualities in the servants of imperial ambition. They go to do more. They go to prove that they are the soldiers of a great Republic whose people are civilized. They go to write it into history that humanity, mercy, and justice have their place in war as in peace. They go to victory, in which the despoilers of the homes of n on combatants shall be punished, the monsters who deflower women shall die wretchedly, the inhuman wretches who condemn noncombatants to slavery shall pass under the rod. They go to compel the Huns who have violated all law. divine and human, to drain to the dregs the bitter cup of sorrow they have pressed to the lips of the weak and the innocent. They go, God ' s own avengers of the unspeakable suffering of the people of Belgium, Northern France. Poland. Serbia, Rumania, and Armenia. As they march, unseen in the clear air above them are the spirits of the Ameri- can mothers and babies that perished in the roaring sea, murdered in the Lusitania. They go to cleanse the earth of the men who began by violating treaties and have progressed by violating the common promptings of humanity which have been held sacred even by the red Indians of America and the black tribes of Africa. They are the armed guards of American honor, of the covenants of Al- mighty God. On this great mission we send them with every blessing, with every ascription of honor. They go to prove that this great Republic is great not only in material things, in its proud cities, its far-flung fields, and its laden orchards and purpling vineyards, but great in the ineffable things of the spirit, in the courage of its people and its purpose to fling high and far the banners of the best civilization created by man. Good-bye. boys, acquit yourselves like men! — Oakland Enquirer. Page Seven